Through what dread moments I lay, with cold and slimy things leaving their trace upon my flesh!

Slimy things touched his torn flesh; whirring birds shot past him, disturbed in their night perches.

Then, aroused to the horror of their nearness, he seized a torch and made at the slimy heap.

A sailor, kneeling on the slimy planks, tried to force a corroded ring-bolt from its niche; another trimmed a smoky lantern.

You'd put yourself wholly in the wrong by withdrawing nowespecially after the slimy trick that you've played a fair opponent.

" "Slimy, eh?" cried Jetson angrily.

I was okay the second time, for earthworms taste crunchy, like raw cucumber, not slimy and wet as they look.

Oh, gee, it was all slimy and had moss growing to it

It looked like a slimy old log floating.

And in forcing their way to the surface, is it not natural that the liquid asphalt and slimy water should be drawn up and expelled?'

Andy, thanks to your sharp eyes I'm here, instead of in his slimy folds.

Some drift-wood, covered with slimy weeds, washed heavily up at our feet.

My boat was fastened to the shore near a slimy creek, that came oozing into the river from some dense jungle near.

The burrowing owl will generally be seen where dogs congregate, and wherever the ground is undermined his snakeship is apt to be found; but rest assured there is some lively 'scattering' to get out of his way if he draws his slimy carcass into their burrows.

Late in the afternoon he happened to squeeze through some thickets behind a clearing where the soil was muddy and slimy, and in the centre of it was a murky pool.

In the middle of this slimy mass appeared two eyes.

Rapid as was this movement, Gilliatt, by a gigantic effort, plunged the blade of his knife into the flat, slimy substance, and with a movement like the flourish of a whip, described a circle round the eyes and wrenched off the head as a man would draw a tooth.

The land has peaceful flocks and herds, And sweet birds singing round; But a myriad monstrous, hideous things Within the sea are found Things all misshapen, slimy, cold, Writhing, and strong, and thin, And waterspouts, and whirlpools wild, That draw the fair ship in.

The nests are made of a slimy gelatinous substance found on the shore, of the sea-weed called agal-agal, and of a soft, greenish, sizy matter, often seen on rocks in the shade, when the water oozes from above.

You know it is, you slimy salamander, and so does PUNCHINELLO.

It gave in his hand, and the slack, wet length of it flew suddenly aboard, smacking his face with its cold and slimy end.

The Perkins household for ten years had been little less than Paradise to its inmates, and then in a single night the reptile of political ambition had dragged his slimy length through those happy door-posts and now sat grinning indecently at the inscription over the library mantel, a ribbon mosaic bearing the sentiment "Here Dwells Content" let into the tiles thereof.

She lay at the end of a long, slimy, muddy flat, and while we were debating how we should manage to get to her, the native chiefs took up the females in their arms, as though they were children, and, in spite of all their blushes and remonstrances, carried them to the boat and placed them safely in it, each seeming to enjoy the task.

Seeing that your little craft is in danger of being capsized by their numbers, you think of self-preservation, and grasping hold of some green and slimy steps, you cling there, like Crusoe to his rock; then, after many efforts, having lost your hat, and scarified your knees, and torn your nails, you at length stand on the pier.

His eye seemed quickened to detect the smallest repellant details of the scene; every cypress stump that stood in, or overhung, the slimy water; every ruined indigo-vat or blasted tree, every broken thing, every bleached bone of ox or horseand they were manyfor roods around.